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4 Stivers / Arendschelling - Anne van de Marck with titles of Matthias II
| Issuer | Abbey of Thorn |
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| Year | 1612-1619 |
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| Weight | 4.0 g |
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| Obverse description | Central device comprising a crowned quartered coat of arms superimposed upon a Burgundian cross, the quarters bearing the heraldic charges of the Abbey of Thorn and the County of Marck. The crown above the shield is rendered in high relief with scrollwork detail. A beaded inner border frames the design, and the circular Latin legend runs along the periphery within a beaded outer border. The strike is typical of hammered coinage, resulting in a slightly irregular planchet with areas of weakness. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Abbey of Thorn was a remarkably autonomous institution — a secular canoness chapter whose abbesses held the rank of imperial princess and exercised direct territorial authority over the surrounding lordship. Anne van de Marck, who held the abbacy from 1611 to 1619, issued coins under the titles of Emperor Matthias II as a formal acknowledgment of imperial suzerainty, a requirement for any Reichsunmittelbar house exercising the right of coinage. The arrangement was largely ceremonial; Thorn's monetary independence was its own.